We Have a New Government

In case you haven’t noticed, Labour are back in charge after 14 years. 

The hard work now begins in wealth taxation (for which new Prime Minister Kier Starmer has no plan), education reform, (emphasis on literacy, numeracy and digital skills, which is great, but no mention of sexual and mental health), funding the NHS (some areas of the NHS are due to receive an increase) and social care model (improved pay, but little on resources) but eventually should breathe lifeblood into local councils. Let’s hope also for an updated prison system to reduce reoffending rates. The appointment of James Timpson – of Timpsons key cutters – as Prisons Minister should give more people the opportunity to turn their lives around. Timpsons is well known for taking on former cocaine dealers and other ex-cons after their release from prison. He’s had a lot of success with this scheme. 

Undoing the damage the Tories have done won’t be easy. Starmer is still a Zionist and is still claiming Israel ‘has the right to defend itself’ against the people it is illegally occupying in the first place. The guy’s a former human rights lawyer. He knows damn well Israel plonked itself down on top of Palestine and said ‘I live here now’ like some kind of ethno-state version of Fargo’s Munch. 

Anyway, as far as domestic affairs, here’s what I’m hoping for:  

• Windfall tax on the top 10%, reducing the number of billionaires 

• Education reform: basic psychology including mental health, more emphasis on nutrition, better IT skills, first aid, increased support for Special Educational Needs kids 

• Vaccine mandates and vaccine passports for adults-only venues 

• A second EU referendum 

• Jail time for Boris Johnson and then Health Secretary Matt Hancock after their disastrous handling of the pandemic 

• More funding for a bigger variety of local grass roots sports, to improve public health 

• More cycle transport and PR work done to get car drivers to pay them more attention, with a better infrastructure to keep cyclists safe 

• More police on the street 

• More support for disability employment 

• Reinstating disability benefit levels to pre-private assessment (ATOS etc.) amounts. 

Not too much to ask in a democratic country, surely? Lets see what happens over the next few weeks.